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Granite (original German title: Granit) is a novella by Adalbert Stifter , included in his collection Colourful Stones , 1853 (original title: Bunte Steine ). On a walk, the grandfather of the protagonist tells him the story of a family of resin extractors' ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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1640s, from French granit(e) (17c.) or directly from Italian granito "granite," originally "grained," past participle of granire "granulate, make grainy," from grano "grain," from Latin granum "grain" (see corn (n.1)). In reference to the appearance of ...
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In the afterpart of the day, when about six miles from Granite House, their progress became much more difficult.
In the midst of that dark pavement, right before the lamplit steps, one single slab of the floor was new, hewn of pale gray granite, its surface rough against the worn, silken smoothness of the rest of the floor, though it, too, was covered with that agelong mantle of dust.
Most of all, groves of wild crab apples draped the lower hills like oases among the granite cliffs.
It was an oval-shaped chamber cut into a mound of earth with its floors flagged with stones while granite blocks lined the walls and were placed so that they formed a natural archlike structure across the entire roof.
The granite peaks north of Bu Awan, far off in the west, wrote a message on the sky.
The onagers being unharnessed, were thence led to their stable, and Pencroft before going to sleep gave vent to his feelings in a deep sigh of satisfaction that awoke all the echoes of Granite House.
Aberknowe was one of several substantial granite houses on the Balmoral land which were occupied by the estate managers.
Duc de Bercy, was set upon a vast rock, and the town of Bercy huddled round the foot of it and on great granite ledges some distance up.
Shortland could have sent a boy like Tommy Bickford, worth a million Shortlands, into that terrible granite box.
But it was no paradiseonly craggy black granite, dripping and sweating.
Across the entire surface, the black granite sweated and trickled, wept and dripped.
Beyond it rises the great mask of granite forming the apex, a bonier skeleton than any before seen.
Something sparkled, and on the hills north of town, she saw the noonday sun reflected off the windows of the big houses in Bonita Vista, like flecks of mica on a granite rock.
Copley, feeling as though his head were filled with hard knobs of spinning granite that crashed with sickening thuds against his brainpan, walked stiffly away to his own quarters.
The Breas, which then had been navigable almost to its source in the foothills of the Rim Mountains, had been crowded with barges bringing slabs of land coral, porphyry, granite, marble and all kinds of precious stones for the construction of the tombs.